Picture and memorandum holder



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Patented May 12, 194.? i

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PICTURE AND MEMORANDUM HOLDER Selden Irwin Clawson, Salt Lake City, Utah Application September 1l, 1940, Serial No. 356,294

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in picture and memorandum holders.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a picture and memorandum holder that can be readily applied to and removed from a page or leaf of a book.

A further object is to provide a holder of the type indicated, which can be produced at a minimum cost and in which a picture or photograph can be easily mounted.

Another object is to provide a holder in which the photograph will be securely retained and fully protected.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain details of construction and combinations and arrangements f parts, all as will hereinafter be more fully described and the novel features thereof particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure l isa front plan view of a holder illustrating the preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front plan view of a modified form of holder; and

Fig. 4. is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

The present holder is made of a strip of flexible material, preferably paper, and one end portion 9 of said strip is formed with an opening I0 through which the picture or photograph P will be exposed to view. In the preferred embodiment of Figs. 1 and 2, this end portion with the exposure opening III is folded to overlie the intermediate portion II, or what might be called the body portion of the strip and is secured to said body portion, as by pasting or gluing, along the spaces A, B, C, extending along three sides of said opening, leaving one side edge free. Thus, a pocket, open at one side edge, is provided between the two plies of paper formed by bending the end portion 9 of the strip back upon said strip. The photograph P can be very easily in-` serted in this pocket through the open side edge and will be securely retained therein.

In this preferred embodiment of the invention, the strip is formed with bent-over doubled portions I2 and I3, these doubled portions being bent reversely or in a direction opposite to that in which the end portion 9 is bent. The reversely bent double portion I3 is formed at the end of the strip opposite the end portion 9 and the reversely bent portion I2 is formed at the point where said portion 9 is folded back on the body portion II. These reversely bent portions form transverse recesses or grooves in which the upper and lower edges of a page L of a book can be engaged to retain the holder on said page. These reversely bent portions I2, I3 should be formed at points so that the book leaf will t close in the bottoms of the grooves to frictionally retain the holder onV the page.

The modification illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 consists of a strip of paper formed into a band by overlapping the ends of the strip. The overlapped ends I4, I5 form a double thickness ofv paper and the outer thickness, which corresponds to the end portion 9 of Fig. 1, has the exposure opening I6 therein. The overlapped portions are pasted or Yglued together over the areas A', B and C along three sides of said exposure opening, leaving one side edge free, just as in the preferred-embodiment, to form the pocket for the photograph P which can be slipped into the pocket through the open side edge and positioned to be exposed through opening I6. As will be understood, the band of paper is adapted to be slipped on to the page or leaf L of the book.

The holder of Fig. 1 can likewise be slipped on to the page L, but, if desired, it can also be placed on the page by rolling or curling the topand bottom edges of the page.

The holder permits a photograph to be placed in a book where it will be seen frequently by the readerand the holder can also serve as a book marker. In addition, theholder provides a rather ample writing surface on which the reader of the book can very conveniently enter notations.

What I claim is:

1. A detachable picture holder for application to the page of a'book, said holder being formed of a strip of paper bent to engage around the upper and lower edges of the book page, said strip .being lapped upon itself at one end to form a end and at the point where it is folded upon itself to form recesses for engagement with the upper and lower edges o-f the book page, said folded back portion being attached to the other thickness of paper to retain a picture between the two thicknesses, and said folded-back portion having an opening for exposing said picture.

S-ELDEN IRWIN CLAWSON. 

